T'was the night before elections,
And all thru' the town,
Tempers were flaring
Emotions ran up and down.
I, in my bathrobe
With a cat in my lap,
Had shut off the TV,
tired of political crap.
When all of a sudden,
There arose such a noise,
I peered out my window,
Saw Obama and his boys
They had come for my wallet,
They wanted my pay
To hand out to others
Who had not worked a day!
He snatched up my money,
And quick as a wink,
Jumped back on his bandwagon
As I gagged from the stink.
He then rallied his henchmen
Who were pulling his cart.
I could tell they were out
To tear my country apart!
'On Fannie, on Freddie,
On Biden and Ayers!
On Acorn, on Pelosi'
He screamed at the pairs!
They took off for his cause,
And as they flew out of sight,
I heard him laugh at a nation
Who wouldn't stand up and fight!
So I leave you to think on this one final note...
IF YOU DON'T WANT SOCIALISM GET OUT AND VOTE !!!!
Just as well someone can see the humour in all this mudslinging which has kept us engrossed and amused for months. (Well written by the way)
ReplyDeleteI suspect this site to will become quiet following the elections when the passion is spent and whomsoever (? American word!) is ensconced in the big white edifice.
I admit to being off topic here ( I have no idea how I can contribute articles) But there has recently been a little mention of compulsory voting .I got to thinking about the Electoral College and wondered if this inhibited voters from participating.
Now it seems to me that the concept of the Electoral College was valid when included in the Constitution, perhaps in the same way as the ownership of firearms.
We can certainly see the influence of Hamilton in the deliberations which brought the college to life. I am idly wondering, having regard to history, if the presence of the College may not be a prime reason for the low turnouts at election times in America.
I note that the College has overturned the popular vote on three occasions during the 19th century and once at the turn of the twentieth when Al Gore won the popular vote but the College elected Bush. I concede that there was a large amount of allegedly corrupt practice in this election and there was also severe criticism of the Supreme Court concerning bias.
Now, bearing in mind the above, would Americans, other than the dedicated supporters of either of the major parties, bother to vote if they understood that their vote may not count?
Of course, understanding the composition and duties of the college is a major undertaking even for Americans so perhaps the “ignorance is bliss” law negates my reasoning. I do believe that there needs to be no controversy this time around or you could have blood on the streets. I have never seen the degree of polarisation as is apparent in your country at present.
Cheers from Aussie
The votes frequently do not count today. When a person votes and they are not a registered voter or illegally registered, their votes negates a legal voters vote. Happens in every election, the states are not allowed to fix it, the Federal Gov't. doesn't want to fix it.
DeleteOur problem is apathy, ignorance and plain stupidity. Many who don't vote say, I didn't vote for the SOB no matter what party wins. Make it a requirement to vote? Just what we need 50% of the voting population who do not even read the platform or policies proposed by the candidate.
Voting rights were only granted to white property owners at the beginning of our country. There were several other restrictions to voting that have slowly been eliminated over the centuries. It would be nice to think that everyone takes their obligation to their country as seriously as the true owners do, but the reality is that not everyone has the same stake in the outcome of the election. Big business can win multi-billion dollar contracts if the right guys get elected. Poor folks can get free food, shelter and health care if they elect the right guys. Those in the middle are trying to balance the needs of both sides. They feel the moral obligation to care for our people and the cold hard reality that you have to give investors some incentive to drop their little drops of relief on us by investing in projects which will provide some legitimate jobs for those willing and able to work. The folks in the middle are the ones who are truly the ones who make this whole thing work and should really feel like they have a big stake in every election. The problem is that our choices are representing the extremes first. So yes, there is some apathy.
DeleteThe reason for the electoral college is so that people who live in smaller states are not disenfranchised.
ReplyDeleteIf we switched to a popular vote, no one would ever visit Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas. It would be CA, TX, FL, NY etc...
TD--------creative writing---------I love it! You, sir have talent!
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ReplyDeleteMy thanks to you and others for the response to my post re the College. It is a fascinating story of idealism, pragmatic decision making and then corruption of the idealism first encouraged by the founders, by the rise of political parties.
The Constitutional convention produced the “first design” and this can be found in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. It was a brilliant but somewhat long winded way of selecting (electing) a President and it failed in its purpose because it did not foresee the rise of dominant Political Parties.
The Second Design appears to have been brought about by the Tied vote between Jefferson and Burr in the 1800 election and the 12th Constitutional amendment was enacted in 1804 specifically to constrain the influence of Political Parties. Incidentally in my view, two individuals partly responsible for the rise of the political parties, were James Madison and Edmund Burke. (One American and one a member of the British Parliament but with strong links to the US via his friendship with Ben Franklin.
Is it not interesting to remember that the universal suffrage we today accept as our “right” was denied to all but landowning “: Gentlemen” in the beginning. The society of the time considered it bad form for a man to seek high office; rather it was the rather quaint form of idealism which proclaimed that the job would find the man rather than the man seek the job.
So what has changed? Well as a starting point the idealism so real in the past has been transformed into greed, avarice and thuggery by a large percentage of political identities throughout the world... You have certainly had your share with Nixon, Agnew and latterly Clinton besmirching the office of President. We in Australia are in the middle of a political scandal which has the potential to bring down the government...
As with so many other areas of government “of the people”, the Electoral College smacks of out of date traditions and a failure to modernise to take account of the present needs of the people. If the system is found wanting by the American people, I would suggest that the college could well remain viable by a “one vote per state” system.
Thank you for reading this, your history is by far the most interesting of modern states I have looked at. British History of course was its foundation and the British Westminster system was studied and amended to make it a viable proposition for you. Not a bad effort to have lasted for well over two hundred years. I think, with all its faults, your system may well be the best in the modern world. China is perhaps fortunate in that she has been able to evolve in a short period into an economy strong in both free enterprise and central control. There needs to be some freedom, and expansion of human rights and China may well become a model for the future.
Cheers from Aussie
Twins........Really really good,no TUs here but you should get 10,000 for that post.
ReplyDeleteRings true also !!
Cool, Twindsdad. Cool
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